With the development of information technology and the emergence of electronic market places, great business opportunities are created with reduced spatial restraints, lowered sea...
Baran and Sweezy’s 1966 study of U.S. capitalism [2] argued that its fundamental problem is not “diminishing returns” but “the tendency of surplus to rise” – from whic...
We present mechanisms, architectures, and an implementation addressing challenges with mobile opportunistic commerce centering on markets and mechanisms that support the procureme...
We propose an evolutionary framework for studying agents that interact in electronic marketplaces. We describe how this framework could be used to study the dynamics of interactio...
Abstract. Shopbots are agents that search the Internet for information pertaining to the price and quality of goods or services. With the advent of shopbots, a dramatic reduction i...